At the
most recent Student Leader's Roundtable meeting, students from numerous
culturally diverse backgrounds expressed great anger not only towards the
recent actions of a Penn State sorority that brought negative national
attention to the Penn State community once again, but to the overall problems
at Penn State regarding the inadequate education with regards to cultural
diversity. During the discussion, President Rodney Erickson suggested that the
students also raise their concerns about racism and ignorance towards
culturally diverse groups with the Faculty Senate. As a member of the Faculty
Senate, Brian offered to address the Faculty Senate on behalf of the students.
He
also was named the chair of the Policy Committee at the recent, first ever, meeting
of the UPUA Diversity Task Force, a group of students who have gathered to
change the way Penn State students treat one another from culturally diverse
backgrounds. The recommendations from dialogue within this group and that of
the conversation at the Student Leader's Roundtable meeting will be the focal
point of his address to the Senate on January 29, 2013.